Could an anomaly in the developing brain explain motor difficulties occurring decades later in people with rare movement disorders?

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Cerebellum (Latin: "little brain") in orange. Cerebellar means "relating to the cerebellum." Source: 3dMediSphere / Shutterstock Since the 1970s, I've been intrigued by the cerebellum's role in peak ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, identified a receptor that plays a crucial role in stress-induced motor ...

Researchers have developed an animal model that reproduces motor dysfunction and cerebellar neurodegeneration similar to that in spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) by inhibiting chaperone-mediated autophagy ...

Dysfunctional neurons in the cerebellum, a brain region that controls motor functions, reduced REM sleep in mice. Previously, the group investigated two models of dystonia, a different motor disorder, ...

Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, McGill University and other institutions have found that a well-concealed genetic variation in the gene FGF14, called a DNA tandem ...

Cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") in red. Cerebellar means "related to the cerebellum." Source: Life Sciences Databases/Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.1-jp) Beta-frequency deep brain stimulation ...

A new study published on Dec. 14, 2022 in the New England Journal of Medicine reports the identification of a previously unknown genetic cause of a late-onset cerebellar ataxia, a discovery that will ...

What is causing this 55-year-old woman to have distorted speech and balance problems when walking, and why have her symptoms worsened progressively since they came on 14 years ago? Those are the ...